You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot.

My lord, I’d rather be alone.” His smile vanished. Not a single muscle in his body bulged, but the color of his eyes turned to dark ashes.“And I’d rather not.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

Whatever we try to control does have control over us and our life.

You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.

The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real.

Cain understands domestic issues because he had experience selling pizza; and he understands international issues because pizza is Italian.

9:00: I don't know what I want. I just point at the Dollar Menu and say, 'Give me all of that.

To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.